Justice Neil Gorsuch was no favorite of the left when he was nominated and confirmed to Justice Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat five years ago, and, in his short time in the court, he has largely operated in lockstep with the conservative majority.
But in a concurring opinion in a recent Supreme Court ruling that Congress can continue to exclude residents of Puerto Rico from a federal safety net program, Mr Gorsuch wrote what Democracy Now!’s Juan González called “one of the clearest and most eloquent statements exposing US colonialism that’s ever been issued by a Supreme Court justice, at least in my lifetime.”
